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Twitter pulls the plug on political ads, Facebook not keen to follow suit

Political ads on social media platforms have been a growing cause for concern globally, especially since reports of foreign interference in the 2016 US Presidential elections surfaced

'Hell no': Jack Dorsey says Twitter will not join Facebook's Libra

He explained that Libra is not based on an open standard, born on the Internet

Any idea how to tackle 'deepfake videos'? Twitter wants your suggestion

"Deepfakes" are video forgeries that make people appear to be saying things they never did

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to invest undisclosed sum in Kerala start-up

Recipient firm Sieve is a platform for freelancers and agencies to offer end-to-end business solutions for enterprises

Tech giants beef up anti-terrorism body to fight extremist content

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube in 2017 formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a vaguely conceived alliance tasked with tackling the most dangerous material on social media

Twitter cracks down on fake news, propaganda accounts across the world

Accounts coming from China seeking to sow discord among protesters in Hong Kong were closed down

Facebook might start hiding 'Like' counts for posts to ease social pressure

Such a change could ease pressure to win approval with images, videos or comments and, instead, get people to simply focus on what is in posts

Twitter CEO account hacked, racial tweets supporting Nazi Germany posted

A barrage of comments fired off on the platform questioned why the Twitter co-founder didn't secure his account with two-factor authentication

ShareChat raises $100 million in Series D funding led by Twitter

ShareChat is India's largest regional social network that claims 60 million monthly active users

Facebook, Twitter pressed to help prevent domestic terrorism in US

Facebook and Twitter are now being asked by politicians to take a more proactive approach to prevent domestic terrorism

Twitter used users' personal data for advertising without consent

The fault was corrected Monday, an investigation is being conducted to determine how many people have been affected

The social trigger

Social media and tech firms revolutionised the way people communicate

#ZomatoUninstalled, #BoycottUberEats trend after 'food is religion' tweet

Even as the incident had social media divided, the Jabalpur police sought an undertaking from the Zomato customer that he would not spread religious hatred

Twitter posts better-than-expected second quarter revenue; ad views rise

Twitter's revenue rose 18% from a year earlier to $841 million, beating Wall Street expectations of $829 million, based on Refinitiv data

Twitter suffers second global service disruption in little over one week

The service interruption was confirmed on Twitter's status page, which said there was an "active incident" that affected the platform's normal operation.

Facebook, Twitter not invited to Trump's social media summit: CNN report

Facebook, Twitter not invited to White House social media summit: Report

Rahul Gandhi has been unable to clean the Augean stable that's the Congress

Neither Rahul, nor his sister Priyanka Gandhi have shown a political temperament. The party's vote share remained virtually stagnant between 2014 and 2019. Now it stares at a possible decline

Did Trump violate Twitter policies? Notice on leaders' harmful tweets soon

A light gray box will appear before the tweet, notifying users that it's in violation, but it will remain available to them

Twitter apologises for suspending accounts before Tiananmen anniversary

Despite being blocked in China, Twitter and other overseas social media sites have long been used by activists and government critics to address subjects that are censored on domestic forums

Twitter shows more ads than better ideas: Why it needs a better biz model

The last thing Twitter needs is to put more poorly targeted advertising in front of users and clients